The President of the Bosnian entity Republika Srpska (RS) Milorad Dodik said that he had four meetings with President Vladimir Putin in Russia over the past two days, and that he would seek "some kind of security support."
Dodik said that after parting ways, Putin told him that they "remain in touch on all issues of joint agreements," and that "for everything they talked about about joint activities, Putin said: 'We will finish it.'"
"What we want to offer and demand from Russia in the coming period is a range of issues that can be described as some kind of security support, not to mention guarantees from Russia for our political and territorial position, and we derive this primarily from the fact that Russia is the guarantor of the Dayton Agreement," Dodik told the media from Republika Srpska in Moscow.
In an interview with Radio Television of the Republic of Srpska (RTRS), the Srna agency and Alternative Television (ATV), he pointed out that Russia undoubtedly stands by the position of that agreement, but not others, such as France, which is doing everything to degrade it.
"It may be a great country, with a great history, but on operational-political issues it has fallen to the lowest possible level. What does it mean to ask for a guarantee from France, nothing, but if we manage to get it through the talks we will have with Russia, that is a different story," Dodik said.
The President of the RS said that in Moscow they "had dinner together, shared lunches, had their own place at the table, in an environment that not only gives importance to the Republika Srpska but also makes me as an individual very proud of the fact that we managed to be at that table."
Dodik also met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on April 1, where he traveled and returned without being arrested, although the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina issued a central arrest warrant for the crime of attacking the constitutional order of BiH. Dodik has so far evaded arrest within BiH, although 16 police agencies in the country have the authority to arrest him.
The issuance of arrest warrants was preceded by secessionist decisions and laws of the authorities of the Republika Srpska entity, led by Dodik and his Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD), which are collapsing the state judicial and police institutions of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The adoption of unconstitutional laws culminated after Dodik was sentenced in the first instance at the end of February by the Court of BiH to one year in prison and a six-year ban on political activity for disrespecting the decisions of the High Representative in BiH.
After Dodik returns to BiH, all agencies operating in BiH remain obligated to act on the order of the state court, and to arrest him, Nenad Stevandić and Radovan Višković, the presidents of the RS Assembly and the RS Government, and take them into custody, which has already been ordered for them.
Stevandić and Višković are also suspected, along with Dodik, of attacking the constitutional order, for which a central warrant has been issued for them. Although the central warrant was issued in mid-March, all three, with increased security from members of the RS Police, continue to perform their duties without hindrance.
On May 9th, Dodik was among about twenty world leaders who attended a military parade in Moscow marking the 80th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany.
Besides Dodik, the only European leaders who attended the military parade were Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Putin and Vučić also met at a bilateral meeting, at which Putin assessed that "Russian-Serbian dialogue is taking place consistently" and that the leaderships of the two countries are in "regular contact".
The bilateral meeting between Putin and Vučić in Moscow was their first official meeting after more than three years of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The parade in Moscow was condemned by Western countries, calling it "Putin's propaganda" with which he is trying to justify the aggression against Ukraine.
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